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BOTM - P. Leigh Fermor, Mani
T. Hasegawa, Racing the enemy
H. Jacobson, The Finckler Question
G. Maxwell, Lords of the Atlas
G. Robb, The Parisians
E. de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes
P.G. Wodehouse, Aunts aren't gentlemen
This wasn't a great month. I got very bogged down in Hasegawa's account of the end of the war, and though fascinating (because I know little about the diplomatic machinations of 1945), it didn't give me a clincher for my 'we should have dropped the bomb' argument (quite reverse in fact). Elsewhere, much fun, but limited. Mani the inevitable favourite, but on rereading I think its appeal is to a certain extent personal. While it's a great book, it's made greater by the richness of the imagining of the Byzantine world that Leigh Fermor indulges in. There's a famous passage where he imagines the restoration of the Empire, but there are several more. They're all wonderful, and the rest of the book isn't bad either.
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